๐ขApartment Hunting in the US
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ํํธ ๊ตฌํ๊ธฐ
You might be surprised how different apartment hunting is in the U.S. compared to Korea. Apartments themselves look different: in Korea, most are high-rise family complexes or small studios, while in the U.S., apartments are often geared toward college students or young couples. Outside of major cities like New York or Chicago, apartment buildings are shorter, with fewer units, and most families prefer to rent or buy houses instead.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ํํธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ด ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ๋๋ ์๋ ์์ด์. ์ํํธ ์์ฒด๋ ์๊น์๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ผ์. ํ๊ตญ์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๋๋จ์ง ๊ณ ์ธต ์ํํธ๋ ์๋ฃธ ํํ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๋ํ์์ด๋ ์ ์ ์ปคํ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ํ ์ํํธ๊ฐ ๋ง์์. ๋ด์์ด๋ ์์นด๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋์๋ฅผ ์ ์ธํ๋ฉด, ์ํํธ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ๋ฎ๊ณ ์ธ๋ ์๋ ์ ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ํํธ๋ณด๋ค ๋จ๋
์ฃผํ์ ๋ ํธํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ ํธํด์.
Americans also have different priorities when looking for an apartment. They check for appliances like a washer/dryer or dishwasher, review amenities such as gyms or pools, consider pet policies, and, importantly, look at crime rates in the area.
์ํํธ๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ๋ ์ฐ์ ์์๋ก ๋๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๋ฌ๋ผ์. ์ธํ๊ธฐยท๊ฑด์กฐ๊ธฐยท์๊ธฐ์ธ์ฒ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ์ด ์๋์ง, ํฌ์ค์ฅ์ด๋ ์์์ฅ ๊ฐ์ ํธ์์์ค, ๋ฐ๋ ค๋๋ฌผ ๊ท์ ๋ฑ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ , ํนํ ๊ทธ ์ง์ญ์ ๋ฒ์ฃ์จ์ ๊ผญ ์ดํด๋ด์.
The application process is another key difference. Most people start online, browsing listings on sites like Zillow or Facebook. Some may use a real estate agent, but fees can be high, so many search independently. After touring an apartment, applicants submit a formal application, including a background check, credit check, and proof of income. If approved, they usually pay the first and last monthโs rent plus a security deposit. This ensures the landlord is confident the tenant can pay rent on time and take care of the unit.
์ ์ฒญ ๊ณผ์ ๋ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์ค ํ๋์์. ๋๋ถ๋ถ Zillow๋ ํ์ด์ค๋ถ ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ดํธ์์ ์จ๋ผ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๋งค๋ฌผ์ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์์ํด์. ๋ถ๋์ฐ ์ค๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ด์ฉํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ ์์ง๋ง ์์๋ฃ๊ฐ ๋น์ธ ์ง์ ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๋ง์์. ์ํํธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ๋ณธ ํ์๋ ์ ์ ์กฐํ, ์ ์ฉ ์กฐํ, ์๋ ์ฆ๋ช
๋ฑ์ ํฌํจํ ๊ณต์ ์ ์ฒญ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ถํด์. ์น์ธ๋๋ฉด ์ฒซ ๋ฌ๊ณผ ๋ง์ง๋ง ๋ฌ ์์ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ด๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์์. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ ์ด์ ๋ ์๋์ธ์ด ์ธ์
์๊ฐ ์ ๋ ์์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์ง์ ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์์์.
Outside big cities, competition is low, so thereโs time to find the right place. Unlike Korea, paying a larger deposit doesnโt lower rent, and prices are generally fixed. Overall, apartment hunting in the U.S. is less fast-paced and more focused on verifying financial stability than on speed or connections.
๋๋์๋ฅผ ์ ์ธํ๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์์ด ์ฌํ์ง ์์ ํ๋ ์ํ๋ ์ง์ ์ฐพ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํด์. ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ธ๋ค๊ณ ์์ธ๊ฐ ๋ฎ์์ง์ง ์๊ณ , ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๊ณ ์ ๋ผ ์์ด์. ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ํํธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ธํ๊ฒ ์งํ๋์ง ์์์. ์๋๋ ์ธ๋งฅ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๊ผผ๊ผผํ ํ์ธํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ๋ง์ถฐ์ ธ ์์ด์. |